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In Defense of Asians

Updated Oct. 23, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

The controversy swirling around Democratic contributions impresario John Huang is not really about Asians, or even foreign political contributions, or about the financing of election campaigns, which after all have to be financed somehow. What it&rsquo;s about is Arkansas.

We know that many good and God-fearing citizens of Arkansas take offense at this shorthand, and we have no intention of indicting them all. Yet our President emerged from a culture and milieu that certainly is prominent in this poor, plutocratic, one-party...